Re: Fate strikes again
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 03:33:15AM +0000, Dan wrote:
> Would you believe it? Thanks to the info in this message I relinked
> /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux and X finally worked with the mouse. (I tried
> /dev/psaux using the graphical xf86setup program, but it didn't work for
> some reason, how odd.) It is amazing, isn't it? Only problem now is that
> when I right click and hit "Exit X" all it does is restart X with the debian
> login... I think that oughta be fixed. I'll have to look into that script
> file, I forget what its called. Oh well.
That's an easy one to fix...
Remove the xdm package. You will then start with a console login.
Type startx to start X, and when you 'exit' you'll return to a console
prompt.
(note: CTRL-ALT-F1 will switch you from X to a console login prompt,
and ALT-F7 will get you back to X)
Mike
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